The Crew Secretary serves as the record-keeping youth leader of the crew, he or she is elected by the youth members, and is responsible for attendance records, written correspondence, records, and minutes showing decisions, plans and publicity.

Typical Venturing crew organization chart (click to zoom)

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Position description

The Crew Secretary is elected by the youth members and is the record-keeping youth leader of the crew. He or she is responsible for the communication that needs to be put into writing – correspondence, publicity, records, and minutes showing officer decisions, actions and plans.

He or she reminds the crew officers of agreed-upon decisions and important items in behalf of the crew. The secretary helps the Vice President – Program with publishing schedules and newsletters; organizes a telephone network amount crew members; handles publicity trough school or community newspapers, newsletters, radio, television, speakers, bulletin boars, and other media.

The secretary can enlist the help of other crew members, and may have an adult crew committee member assigned to assist the secretary.